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We request you adhere to section 1.13 of the Australian code for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes 8th edition 2013. Which states: ‘Death as an endpoint' must be avoided unless it is essential for the aim(s) of the project.

Despite an offer by Edgar's Mission to purchase the 20 lambs, you have advised NAPS:

"the supplier will be buying back the sheep at the conclusion of the practical, and re-homing them at the farm from which they came".

There is no assurance the lambs will not be killed, or sold to slaughter thereafter.

Our requests:

- assurance all 20 lambs will not be killed at the farm they are being sent to

- assurance all 20 lambs will not be sent to slaughter from the farm

- send all 20 lambs to Edgar's Mission - as was the case last year.

Signed,

Sofia Green Bean

This petition closed about 3 years ago

How this will help

In 2012 the Non-Human Animal Protection Society (NAPS) successfully
lobbied the Animal Ethics Committee (AEC) @ La Trobe University,
Bundoora - to surrender 20 lambs. They were being used in an AEC approved second
year Nutrition Practical, to Edgar's Mission.

ONLY
possible due to the 1000+ people who signed the petition and wrote
letters to the AEC.

In 2013, the practical is going ahead again and we have no assurance the lambs will not be slaughtered upon conclusion. Time is of the essence, as the practical is about to end.

As per section 1.13 of the Australian code for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes 8th edition 2013: 'Death as an endpoint' must be avoided unless it is essential for the aim(s) of the project.

Despite an offer by Edgar's Mission to purchase the 20 lambs, the AEC have advised:

"the supplier will be buying back the sheep at the conclusion of the practical, and re-homing them at the farm from which they came".

NAPS' requests for the AEC:

assurance all 20 lambs will not be killed at the farm they are being sent to

assurance all 20 lambs will not be sent to slaughter from the farm

send all 20 lambs to Edgar's Mission - as was the case last year.

Please sign the petition and/or write an email to Andrew Brennan and the Animal Ethics Committee: